Best Bulletin: January

Atlanta-based jewelry designer Asha Patel knows that words hold power. Get creative and set your New Year’s intentions with one or more necklaces from her new “Words” collection. These 16-inch brass dipped necklaces come with eight different words and help you focus on conscious affirmations such as namaste, breathe, meditate and carpe diem.

We’ve all heard that running and regular exercise promote a healthier body and mind. Before you reap those benefits, you have to have the most basic equipment – and Mizuno USA has it all. This sporting goods manufacturer recently partnered with Atlanta Track Club, the second largest running organization in the United States and host to the world’s largest 10K, the Peachtree Road Race. Mizuno USA is now the exclusive footwear and apparel brand provider for all ATC’s events.

During this winter weather, care for your fellow Atlantans in a fast and easy way – with your cell phone. LUV4wrd, a social media mobile app, helps users feel warm and fuzzy while providing literal warmth to the homeless through a partnership with FLIP Burger and Mercy Care. To participate, simply download the app and post a photo or video of what you “LUV.” For each post, FLIP Burger will donate 50 cents to Mercy Care, which will then provide coats, gloves, socks, blankets and other necessities to Atlanta’s homeless.

Here at Best Self Atlanta, we know it can be tough to tackle your New Year’s resolutions. To help, we’ve created a 30 Days of Fitness blog series. For 30 days in January, our magazine staffers will try a different workout each day and blog about our experiences. We’ll tell you firsthand what to expect from each class, details about the gyms and even basics like parking information and cost of a class. Reading each post will give you a closer look at your local fitness options and help you confidently take your first steps toward a new workout routine for 2015. Find the posts on the Best Self Atlanta blog today!

Whether you stick to a few favorite restaurants or like to explore Atlanta’s food scene, we can all agree on one thing: we hope each restaurant has passed its health inspection. Chris Peoples and Jake Van Dyke from Modern App Solutions, LLC, hope so too. To help you steer clear of any establishments that don’t meet your health standards, they launched the free downloadable app “What the Health.” It shows up-to-date health inspection scores of Georgia restaurants, hospitals and schools, helping consumers make safer, healthier decisions.